Drive Thru Comics: Top Cow, Holmes Incorporated & More

Drive Thru Comics have released their latest titles to download online. They also have a spotlight on Top Cow titles:

Publisher Focus: Top Cow

(Excerpted from the Wikipedia article): During initial stages of Image Comics, Marc Silvestri shared a studio with Jim Lee, where he created his first creator-owned comic, Cyberforce, as part of Image’s initial line-up. After setting up his own studio,Top Cow Productions, he expanded into other comics, launching Codename: Strykeforce, a new Cyberforce series and various spin-offs.

The company attracted several professionals known across the industry, including artist Brandon Peterson, writer Garth Ennis and former Marvel staffer David Wohl. It also helped launch the careers of various writers and artists, such as Christina Z., Joe Benitez, Michael Turner and David Finch. Benitez, Turner and Finch have since worked for DC and Marvel Comics.

In 1996, Top Cow briefly departed from Image during a power struggle with Image associate Rob Liefeld until Liefeld left the company shortly after. At the same time, Top Cow was abandoning superheroes and moving into a different subsegment, the fantasy genre. New properties wereWitchblade (where Turner had his first big success) and The Darkness (where Marc Silvestri returned to artist duties). Thanks to the success of Witchblade Top Cow was able to expand, adding to its line with titles that included The Darkness, Magdalena, Aphrodite IX, and others. Silvestri was heavily in volved in training and developing new talent through the studio and Top Cow was known for a time for its “house style”.

In addition to company owned properties Top Cow has from time to time worked with creators to develop creator generated properties. These properties have included Turner’s Fathom which eventually ended up at Aspen Comics; Joe’s Comics, created exclusively for J. Michael Straczynski, which included Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Agency, and Obergeist.

Their latest releases include –

FIGHTING THE MAN… WITH SCIENCE!

Dr. David Loren is many things: child prodigy, inventor, genius, slacker… mass murderer. When a military think tank’s smartest scientist decides he can no longer stomach creating weapons of destruction, will he be able to think his way out of his dilemma or find himself subject to the machinations of smaller men? This is the Think Tank!

“PORTALS,” Conclusion

On a rescue mission to a world that’s the love child of JRR Tolkein and Philip K. Dick, Sara Pezzini races against time to save a life. Can she succeed with a ruthless warlord, a royal entourage, and even a bitter former Witchblade bearer in her way? Follow the Witchblade!

SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS GO OUT WITH GUNS BLAZING…

In the noir tradition of Chandler and Spillane comes SUNSET, a two-fisted tale of revenge and redemption. On the surface, Nick Bellamy looks like any other veteran retiree left behind by a modern world. In reality, Nick is a former enforcer, who stole a fortune and years of freedom from his former mob boss. Now, in the twilight of his life, Nick will lose everything he cares about except two things: revenge… and the chance to die with his guns blazing.

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The game is afoot, and a leg and a fist! The descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue the family business in modern times, serving Queen and country, battling diabolical villains and solving the big mysteries no one else dares to confront as agents of HOLMES INCORPORATED!

A futuristic world brought to ruin by Artificial Intelligence machines. The leader of the machines is a being called Prometheus. He was the first machine, the first AI. Created by a desperate man who lost his beloved family in a fire. He brings his son back to life in the form of AI. His heart is a relic of the past that houses the soul of the Titan King Chronos. Once he was old enough Chronos began guiding Prometheus to take over his father’s company and create Bio Technology so humans can begin to become closer to perfection. He does this and a fringe religion starts to form with people worshiping the machines. He grows in power and once 60% of the population attach cybernetics he turns them into his pawns. The War on humanity begins and man is nearly wiped out. On the last battlefield the Old Gods descend, the Greek and Norse Pantheon come to our aid. They fight the machines back and rescue the last of mankind. The All Fathers Zeus and Odin summon the world Tree Yggdras il and using its magic build a human city called Valhalla. They erect a magical barrier around the city to protect it from Chronos and his machine army. The Gods set out and attack Chronos in his machine capital called Elysium, they are overwhelmed by him and die in battle. A brilliant human scientist named Cadmus travels to the battlefield and harvests their remains, using DNA Splicing he combines Norse and Greek God DNA creating a new race of Gods, the Redeemers. Enhanced with Cybernetics these New Gods are humanity’s last hope, they are our only chance at Salvation. The World Tree is running out of power, the all Fathers must be rescued from Elysium so they can re charge the World Tree. If it runs out of power the barrier will fall and Chronos hordes will wipe us out. This is the world of Pantheon.

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In the aftermath of the mass breakout of superpowered deltas from New Alcatraz, fear and chaos grips the United States. Patriot — the leader of the rebellion known as the Defiance — and his friends Street, Lisa, and Charge work tirelessly to help the people in their organization’s swollen ranks.

When a madman attacks a family of rogue deltas hiding in the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies, Patriot and his friends rush to their rescue. What they find when they arrive forces them to grab the family and race to Denver, where they wind up in a standoff against Delta Prime, the government agency of superpowered soldiers determined to crush their rising resistance.

In the course of this, the second book of Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World trilogy, the heroes of the Defiance learn more of the truth about the disappearance of the city of Chicago back in 1976, and what they discover will change the world forever.

This is Book Two in the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World Trilogy.

This download includes Mobi, ePub and PDF formats of the novel.

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The game is afoot, and a leg and a fist! The descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue the family busin ess in modern times, serving Queen and country, battling diabolical villains and solving the big mysteries no one else dares to confr…

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